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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Engendering Scottish History for the Medieval and Early Modern Periods -- Part One Place -- 1 Mary, Queen of Scots, Three Noblewomen and a Fife 'Murder Mystery' -- 2 'Scottish Portias' Revisited: Women in the Courts in Early Modern Scottish Towns -- 3 Punching Back against Patriarchy: The Story of Jean Weir -- 4 Always at the Gate? Unlocking Medieval Women's Stories in Modern-day Edinburgh -- Part Two Faith -- 5 'She displays by her speeches': Marion Walker, Catholic Speech and Local Resistance in Early Modern Glasgow -- 6 Memory and Materiality: John Knox and the Resilience of Relicthinking in the Continuity and Gender of Cult in Late Medieval and Early Modern Perth -- 7 'She-zealots' and 'Satanesses': Women, Patriarchy and the Covenanting Movement -- 8 Emotion, Authority and Griefwork in the Spiritual Poetry of Lilias Skene -- Part Three Politics -- 9 Displaying Support for Women's Lineage: Late Medieval Seals and Family Identity -- 10 Another Damsel in Distress? Katherine Beaumont, a Disinherited Noblewoman in Fourteenth-century Scotland -- 11 Negotiating Youth, Old Age and Manhood: A Comparative Approach to Late Medieval Scottish Kingship -- 12 Sons and Daughters, Mothers and Mercenaries: Agency and Agenda in the Cross-North Channel Context, c. 1550-c. 1600 -- Conclusion: New Vistas and the Future for Scottish Gender History -- Bibliography -- Index.